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Question:  Alert log files

Answer: What are four errors found in an alert (error) log that can ruin a DBA's appetite and how can you avoid them?


July 07, 2009 01:33:46 #3
 aravindhreturns   Member Since: July 2009    Total Comments: 5 

RE: Alert log files
 
I personally feel that more error we come across, more stronger our roots become. 
Errors are not gonna ruin the DBA's apettite. Both my pals above forgot the most notable 'ORA-00600 (Internal Error)'. They occur more than the most. :) And of course ORA-01578 (Block Corruption). We don't see them too often, Do we? It is yet another error which can be
very much solved in a corporate environment since they have back-ups even for a mouse-click ;)

Now, This error ORA-00060 (Deadlock) is not too tough to break through. You've got two options:- either rollback and rerun the statement (or) Wait till the statement is issue so that the resources are freed up. And
others are day-to-day alerts (Which can be pretty much ignored) like:


ARCx: Media recovery disabled


This message will be written into the alert.log if the arch process is started with the database being in noarchive log mode.


Ignoring SIGALARM Such a message is written into the alert log when a process that waited for a semaphoreThread 1 cannot allocate new log, sequence 1558 Checkpoint not complete


This error message is written into the alert.log if a checkpoint cannot write all dirty db blocks to the online redo log.

     

 

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